USGS Identifier

Title: Long Valley Observatory

Photo Information

Hot Creek Gorge, Long Valley caldera, California
Photograph by R.A. Bailey

View of Hot Creek Gorge is toward the southwest. The steep walls of the gorge consist of a single thick rhyolite lava that was erupted from a vent about 4 km to the south.

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U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park, California, USA
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Contact: Long Valley Web Team
Last modification: 19 October 1999 (SRB)